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St Mary's Church, Higham Ferrers is a parish church in the Church of England in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade I listed building. == History and description== The present church was founded by a charter of King Henry III in about 1220, with the tower being the last part of the first phase to be completed in about 1250.〔''The Buildings of England; Northamptonshire''. Nikolaus Pevsner.〕 A large proportion of the original church survives to the present. The next phase of building in about 1320, was the widening of the north aisle and the replacement of the nave arcade, to allow for the insertion of the Lady Chapel. Additional windows were added to the chancel and the south aisle. The clerestory and the low pitched roof, with parapets is from the early 15th century, possibly under the auspices of Bishop Henry Chichele, later Archbishop of Canterbury. Chichele also had the rood screen and choir stalls with their misericords installed in about 1425. It is worth noting that Archbishop Chichele also had All Souls College, Oxford built, and there is a definite family resemblance between both sets of misericords, it is possible that the same carver, possibly Richard Tyllock, created both. In 1631 the spire and part of the tower collapsed, and was then repaired shortly afterwards. This was the last work performed on the fabric of the church. Simon Jenkins, in his ''England's Thousand Best Churches'', describes the spire as "one of the finest in a county famous for spires"〔Jenkins, S. (2000), ''England's Thousand Best Churches'', Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-141-03930-5, pp. 572-573.〕 Two restorations took place during the 19th century, but both seem to have been sympathetically performed. The tower contains a ring of ten bells, the previous eight having been restored and rehung in a new frame, together with two new bells, in 2014 by John Taylor & Co, Loughborough, the project marking the 600th anniversary of Henry Chichele's consecration as Archbishop. 167 full peals were rung on the eight bells and six have now been rung on the ten, the latest being in a new "method", Regnum Diutissime ("the longest reign") Delight Royal in honour of the Queen having become the longest-reigning British monarch. One of the chief glories of the church is the west porch. Built between 1270-80, it is almost certainly the work of one of the foreign masons employed in the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey, the style and quality of the work here closely resembling the porch of the North transept of the Abbey.〔''The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a short guide''. Revd. C. S. Ford, 1958〕 Simon Jenkins, awarding St Mary's three stars, says:
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